I was kind of dumbstruck to hear Matt say in the latter Q&A part of the talk that the plan is to transform Tumblr so that its backend is all run on WordPress. How can they do that when Tumblr themes appear to have functionality that WordPress 6.1 can’t even replicate yet?

WordPress would have to have add more customization features to the Query Loop in the List View, as well as add some sort of Featured Block option that goes beyond just Featured Images to achieve this (i.e. Featured Video, Featured Gallery, Featured Audio, etc). Or are these capabilities somehow hidden within WordPress 6.1 right now and I’m just not seeing them?

Two Tumblr themes as a quick example, which use Masonry grids, are Bone and Infinite. I see no way to recreate these with the default Site Editor in WordPress 6.1.

But ya, I’d love for the day when I could just look at any theme on the Web and just say, “Oh, I know which blocks I can use to recreate that in WordPress”, similar to what Matt suggested people should be able to do with WordPress.